The writer and essayist Dominique Edde. (Credit: IMA)
The eleventh edition of the History Days at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) took place this weekend and centered around the isotopy of heroism. It was launched with an inaugural lecture by novelist and essayist Dominique Edde, kicking off a vast, ambitious and multidisciplinary program. The program included lectures on figures like Abd el-Kader, Cleopatra and the saint in the Muslim West, concerts centered around Scheherazade, and numerous roundtables discussing heroism in figures like Aladdin and Ali Baba, Alexander, T.E. Lawrence and more. The programming also featured a film discussion on Daraya, the library under bombs, and a musical lecture examining the resonances of icon and saint figures. Although the overall proposal seemed plentiful and eclectic, it was finely harmonized by Dominique Edde's opening words, skillfully...
The eleventh edition of the History Days at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) took place this weekend and centered around the isotopy of heroism. It was launched with an inaugural lecture by novelist and essayist Dominique Edde, kicking off a vast, ambitious and multidisciplinary program. The program included lectures on figures like Abd el-Kader, Cleopatra and the saint in the Muslim West, concerts centered around Scheherazade, and numerous roundtables discussing heroism in figures like Aladdin and Ali Baba, Alexander, T.E. Lawrence and more. The programming also featured a film discussion on Daraya, the library under bombs, and a musical lecture examining the resonances of icon and saint figures. Although the overall proposal seemed plentiful and eclectic, it was finely harmonized by Dominique Edde's opening words, skillfully...